Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1956) is an American novelist and a short story writer. She is often referenced as one of the main " brat pack " authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney . [ 2 ]

Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.

Tama Janowitz has 28 books on Goodreads with 20088 ratings. Tama Janowitz’s most popular book is Slaves of New York.

2016年8月16日 · Tama Janowitz. By Molly Ringwald Photographed by Grant Delin August 16, 2016. View Full Images. In 1985, I was a junior in high school trying to pass algebra like any ...

Tama Janowitz carved a niche for herself in the literary world with her collection of short stories, Slaves of New York, which became a best-seller. Known for her keen observations of urban life ...

2016年8月12日 · Tama Janowitz was a 28-year-old Barnard grad when her 1986 short story collection “Slaves of New York,” transformed her into a literary wunderkind and downtown It girl pretty much overnight.

2024年4月16日 · Exploring the discount bin outside Dog Eared Books, I discover Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz, which is not, I learn, a historical text about the slave market on Wall Street. The cover features a man and woman photographed like Warhol silkscreens. On the back, Warhol himself calls the stories inside GREAT! SIZZLING! WOW!Article […]

1999年8月9日 · Tama Janowitz is, apparently, no longer a slave of New York. She’s got a three-bedroom prewar penthouse sixteen floors up in the sky, with a wraparound deck that’s completely serene save for ...

Few can match Tama Janowitz's commentaries on the race of fakes, freaks, and flakes who inhabit the sprawling metropolis of social non-achievement. By her own admission, satiric observations designed for humorous entertainment limit an author's appeal to those readers who share a similar sense of humor with the author.

Tama Janowitz is the author of Slaves of New York, A Cannibal in Manhattan, American Dad, The Male Cross-Dressers Support Group, and By the Shores of Gichee Gumee, and is the recipient of two NEA grants in fiction, as well as a New York State Council of the Arts Award in Fiction. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.